This research aims at clarifying the relation between evaporation from bare-soil surfaces and salinization in arid and semi-arid areas through an experiment and a numerical simulation. The following results were obtained.(1) In the experiment, dune sand in Western China was used for setting up a sand column and a controlled atmospheric condition (temperature, humidity and radiation) was applied on the upper surface of the column with initially uniform water content profile (field capacity). 1) Liquid water, water vapor and solute dissolved from soil particle behaved in a manner of similarity, and evaporation rate varied inversely as square root of time. 2) Application of radiation suppressed evaporation through a downward transport of vapor. 3) High salinization occurred in a dried zone ahead of the drying front lead descent of its vapor density but increase in resistance to the vapor transport owing to the crystallization was not seen. 4) Under the periodic atmospheric condition simulating night-time (non-radiation and moist air) and daytime (radiation and dry air), periodic occurrence of evaporation-condensation near the sand surface played an important role in the evaporation process.(2) A numerical simulation using a newly formed calculation-scheme for water and solute movement predicted characteristics of evaporation-salinization seen in the experiment, and its solutions became very useful information for understanding the evaporation-salinization process.